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Urgency of Preventing & Stopping Sexual Harassment

Learn why a new public urgency has caused scrutiny of handling and stopping sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace.

April 1st, 2021

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3 Key Benefits of Paperless Privileging

It’s imperative to tackle the barriers to implementation paperless privileging with communication about its key benefits. After discussing the barriers, we address the benefits.

April 1st, 2021

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10 Risks of Nurse Disengagement

Nurse engagement measures the degree to which a nurse is committed to their job, the organization for which they work, and the nursing profession as a whole. When nurses become disengaged, patient care can definitely suffer.

April 1st, 2021

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National Handwashing Awareness Week Brings Attention To A Core Infection-Prevention Protocol

National Handwashing Awareness Week provides the opportunity to bone up on hand health and put into practice a quick and easy way to cut back on germ and virus transmission.

April 1st, 2021

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Guide Individualized Healthcare Training and Development

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare workplace development can help organizations overcome some of the challenges holding back employees from achieving great outcomes.

April 1st, 2021

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World AIDS Day Offers A Chance To Celebrate Successes & Assess The Challenges Ahead

World AIDS Day occurs Dec. 1, 2019 and is the perfect opportunity to assess what the healthcare community is doing around awareness, prevention, and treatment.

April 1st, 2021

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Use the International Day of Disabled Persons to Assess Public Accessibility & More

The International Day of Disabled Persons shows how much work needs to be done, both here and around the world, to ensure that everyone has access to, and inclusion within, public structures and activities.

April 1st, 2021

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Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month Takes Aim at a Complicated & Elusive Foe

World Pancreatic Cancer Day and Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month are here. Use this time to study your risks and see your physician for routine bloodwork and a checkup.

April 1st, 2021

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Take A Deep Breath & Get Involved with Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Lung Cancer Awareness Month is the perfect opportunity to learn more about how to prevent a disease that kills more women that breast cancer.

April 1st, 2021

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Great American Smokeout Offers Perfect Opportunity to Kick the Habit

The Great American Smokeout is the American Cancer Society’s annual effort to help Americans stop smoking, and stay stopped, so they can live longer and healthier lives.

April 1st, 2021

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Understanding Core Privileges Form Components & Best Practices

Learn why it's a best practice to organize core privilege forms by specialty and certain components that typically should make up each specialty’s core privilege form.

April 1st, 2021

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National Influenza Vaccination Week Puts Focus on Fast & Easy Prevention

National Influenza Vaccination Week is the time to separate fact from fiction when it comes to influenza, flu shots and how to stay healthy while also protecting those around us.

April 1st, 2021

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Three Guidelines for Communication with a Patient’s Loved Ones

Delivering great care and achieving better outcomes requires the ability of healthcare professionals to communicate successfully and meaningfully with a patient’s family and other loved ones. Here are some guidelines for improved family communication.

April 1st, 2021

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Privileging Telehealth Providers

The credentialing and privileging of telehealth providers is something many healthcare providers are still figuring out.

April 1st, 2021

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Applying a Population Health Model to the Opioid Abuse Crisis

Healthcare can improve its approach to the opioid crisis by adopting a population health model. Looking at addiction and abuse as a chronic disease can change the treatment trajectory

April 1st, 2021

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Promote Awareness & Prevention During American Diabetes Month

Millions of Americans have type 2 diabetes, and millions more are at risk—that’s why education and awareness re the cornerstones of American Diabetes Month.

April 1st, 2021

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The Future of the Opioid Abuse Epidemic

The recent decades of opioid abuse in the U.S. tells us that the crisis wasn’t just an accident and there are certain key lessons for the healthcare industry.

April 1st, 2021

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Use Alzheimer’s Awareness Month to Boost Awareness and Review Outreach Strategies

Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias continue to grow in prevalence among seniors, and providers need to step up efforts to identify issues early so appropriate care can be provided.

April 1st, 2021

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Key Lessons from the History of the Opioid Abuse Epidemic

The history of opioid use in the United States, especially the recent decades of abuse, tells us that the crisis wasn’t just an accident. Decisions were made by individuals and corporations that led to our current state of calamity, with certain key lessons for the healthcare industry.

April 1st, 2021

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Understanding Hospice Care, from Stages to Cost

HealthStream helps you to understand hospice care, including its different stages, treatments modalities, the levels of care, and the associated costs.

April 1st, 2021

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